Project Interior Designer IV Dallas, TX

Cannon Design, Inc.; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

CannonDesign seeks an experienced interior design leader to guide client teams across multiple projects, shaping goals, concepts, and the final space. You will drive design development from pursuit through construction phases, ensuring alignment with code, schedule, and budget while delivering compelling storytelling and visualizations.

You will mentor junior designers, coordinate with architects and engineers, and lead client meetings to maintain strong relationships. Travel as required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor or Master’s degree in Interior Design or related field.
• Minimum 8 years of related experience.
• NCIDQ certification preferred.
• Ability to lead interior design across multiple projects.
• Strong design, storytelling, and technical skills with code knowledge.
• Excellent presentation, organizational, teamwork, and communication skills.
• Ability to build and maintain client relationships.
• Experience leading a high performing team preferred.
• Critical thinker and highly analytical.
• Fully qualified professional able to perform work with latitude and ambiguity.
• Proficiency with Revit, Enscape, Bluebeam, MS Office, and Adobe Creative Suite.
• Willingness to travel.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to clients and project team in establishing goals.
• Provide interior design leadership across multiple projects.
• Lead design development through all project phases.
• Evaluate client needs and document design objectives and spatial requirements.
• Lead interior design approach within the project team.
• Conceptual and design development of interior spaces.
• Coordinate design work and code compliance.
• Coordinate with architecture, engineering, and consultants.
• Review drawings to meet time, budget and quality constraints.
• Oversight of and productions of design visualization.
• Assist and/or lead in project planning through development and follow through of work plans/budgeting.
• Develop the schedule of work for interior design components.
• Assist in or lead client meetings.
• Maintain positive client and team relations.
• Enforce interior design standards used throughout interior design team.
• Lead development of FFE throughout all phases.
• Specification development and coordination.
• Mentor less experienced interior design staff.
• Participate in design leadership.
• Collaborate with design leadership.
• Consult with product vendors.
• Lead and/or participate in marketing activities, including proposal development and interviews.
• Participate in construction administration activities, including site visits and submittals.
• May perform other duties as required.

Skills

Interior design leadership

Strong design storytelling

Analytical thinking

Excellent communication

Client relationship skills

Team collaboration

Critical thinker

Education

Bachelor or Master’s degree in Interior Design

Tools

Revit

Enscape

Bluebeam

Microsoft Office

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

ABOUT THE ROLE

Under the direction of designated project leadership, the successful candidate will be responsible for leading and engaging with clients and teams in delivering services to creatively solve problems and performs with a high degree of latitude.

HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Provide leadership to the client and project team in establishment of the project goals and vision.
• Provide project interior design leadership across multiple projects.
• Lead the design development of the project’s goals through all phases of the project (the Pursuit, Programming, Schematic Design, Design Development, Construction Design, Construction Administration).
• Evaluate client needs, analyze and effectively document design objectives and spatial requirements.
• Responsible for leading the interior design approach within the project team.
• Responsible for the conceptual and design development of interior spaces for the project.
• Coordinate project design work and code compliance.
• Coordinate work with other disciplines, including architecture, engineering and consultants.
• Conduct a review of drawings and support functions in conformance with project time, budget and quality constraints.
• Oversight of and productions of design visualization.
• Assist and/or lead in project planning through development and follow through of work plans/budgeting.
• Develop the schedule of work for the interior design components of the project.
• Assist in or lead client meetings.
• Maintain positive client and team relations.
• Implement, follow, maintain, and enforce interior design standards used throughout interior design team in all project aspects/ phases.
• Lead the development of furniture, fixtures and equipment (FFE) throughout all phases of the interior design work, as required.
• Specification development and coordination.
• Mentor less experienced interior design staff.
• Actively participate and promote design leadership.
• Collaborate with design leadership.
• Consult with product vendors.
• Lead and/or participate in marketing activities, including proposal development and interviews.
• Participate in construction administration activities, including site visits, review of submittals and shop drawings, and conducting punch list. Site visits frequently require a physical walk-through of site.
• May perform other duties as required.

HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL NEED

• Bachelor or Master's degree in Interior Design, Interior Architecture, or relevant field required.
• A minimum of 8 years of related experience required.
• Current NCIDQ certification is preferred.
• Ability to provide interior design leadership across multiple projects.
• Strong design, story telling and technical skills as well as the knowledge of building and life safety codes required.
• Exceptional presentation, organizational, team building, collaboration and communication skills are a must.
• The ability to build and maintain client relationships is essential.
• Experience leading a high performing team is preferred.
• Critical thinker.
• Highly analytical.
• Must be a fully qualified professional able to perform work with a high degree of latitude, with some ambiguity in work.
• Proficiency with Revit, Enscape, Bluebeam, Microsoft Office, and Adobe Creative Suite required.
• Travel as required.

For a general overview of our benefits, please visit our careers page at https://www.cannondesign.com/careers/benefits

ABOUT OUR FIRM

CannonDesign is a design practice where strategy, experience, architecture, engineering, and social impact converge. We don’t just dream up solutions — we create and bring them to life in ways to solve some of the biggest challenges facing our clients and the society. At the heart of everything we do is Living-Centered Design, a bold commitment to using our talents to not just improve the world but to truly reshape it for the better. It’s more than a philosophy — it’s who we are, and it drives us to make a meaningful, lasting difference every day.

ABOUT WORKING HERE

• We are relentless in our pursuit of client adoration (not simply satisfaction). Consistent delivery of the best service is what we are about.
• We are committed to ensuring our practice provides equal opportunities for all employees, as we strive to connect with communities around us and focus on the future of design. We support equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts that benefit all employees through the leadership of our DEI Council, our Employee Resource Groups which are open to everyone, and other community initiatives.
• We’re about communication and transparency here. If you want to talk to someone about an idea you have, or a challenge that needs addressing, we’re ready for you.

As a condition of employment, all employees are expected to complete mandatory training, including compliance training, within required timeframes and adhere to our internal policies and our Code of Conduct.

CannonDesign is an Equal Opportunity Employer. CannonDesign is committed to maintaining a work environment that is free from any and all forms of unlawful discrimination and harassment. It is therefore the firm’s policy to prohibit discrimination and harassment against any applicant, CannonDesign employee, vendor, contractor, or client on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. It is also CannonDesign’s policy to prohibit any and all forms of retaliation against any individual who has complained of harassing or discriminatory conduct, or participated in a firm or agency investigation into such complaints.